Word: seem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This unprecedented step on the part of the Vagabond is due to certain exigencies which it is not needful to discuss here, but which make it seem advisable for him to suspend his wanderings until Monday, February...
...first sight it might seem unwise to adopt unconditionally a system formerly discarded but the New Hampshire bill appears to be in reality an unusually far-sighted compromise between the two methods. It provides for party conventions whose nominations shall in ordinary cases take the place of expensive and possibly corrupt primaries, at the same time safoguarding the rights of the individual by making it possible for a candidate with sufficient support to appeal for a regular election, if dissatisfied with the decision of the convention of his party. It is foreseen that "appeal elections" will probably be demanded...
...than in a flat arm. The whole scene greatly resembles the aspect of the modern game in every way. Of course I do not know just how the ancient Greeks played their game--whether there were more players on each team, whether there were goals, etc.--but it does seem reasonable that this bas-relief indicates the existence of a game very much like our ice hockey some centuries before the birth of Christ. Henry W. Keyes...
...later scene permits her the same fine commonplace of circumstance upon which to embroideries the curtain rises upon her own levee, which gathers momentum as she gathers momentum, the audience is aware that it being treated to something almost around American powers of production. The great canopied bed may seem at times to engulf her, but it requires no more than a moment and the tip of her shoulder to center attention and no more than a mirror and a pat to her hair to render her regal. The whole first act moves incredibly fast, as it passes in review...
...HILL OF HAPPINESS- George N. Bhuster-Appleton ($1.75), The Franciscan monastery of these quaint tales might as well be in Renaissance Perugia as where it is in fact, modern California. Ineredible as it may seem, no modern note steals in, unless a circus, wet concrete or an ichthyosaurus may be called modern. St. Bonaventure's is as little concerned with the outside world as it is with the early lives of its members - now all disguised as Brother Benedict, Brother Cosmos and the like (no Brothers Pete, Mike, Joe or Henry). The village, where the author grew...